Hank Berrien
On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX) took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his praise of Communist
China, in which Sanders stated that Communist China had made "more
progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of
civilization."
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Photo of Cruz by Sarah
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Sure, the Chinese Communists have wrongfully imprisoned & tortured millions, and they have murdered over 65 million people, but Bernie may have a point: when you’re dead, your poverty’s solved, right? #AbsurdLeftistPropaganda https://t.co/dYFpjLHpXf— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) 28 de agosto de 2019
The story that triggered Cruz
to demolish Sanders came from The Hill, which lauded Sanders’ "nuanced view of Beijing."
Sanders told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball, "China is a country that is moving
unfortunately in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions. But what
we have to say about China in fairness to China and its leadership is if I’m
not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than
any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for
their people."
This is not the first time
Cruz has flattened Sanders, whom he must regard as his own personal punching
bag. In February 2017 they debated healthcare, and Cruz lacerated Sanders several times. He forced Sanders to admit that former
President Barack Obama lied about Obamacare and destroyed Sanders's socialist
philosophy after agreeing that corruption permeates Washington, D.C., then
turning to Sanders and saying, "If the problem is that government is
corrupt, why on Earth would you want more power in Washington?"
In October 2017 the two
senators debated the GOP’s tax reform plan, which Sanders had described as
"Robin Hood in reverse." That prompted this classic slam-down from
Cruz: "I think Bernie fundamentally misunderstood that story. Robin was
robbing the tax collectors who were collecting too much taxes from the working
men and women and taking it from the rich. In Bernie’s analogy, it is the
Democrats who are King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Robin is saying,
'Tax collectors, stop hammering people who are struggling, who are laboring in
the fields, who are working. Stop taking it to the castle to give out to your
buddies.'"
Cruz has also been strong targeting China; in April 2019 he stated, "China is in my view the greatest long-term geopolitical risk to the United States. They are the greatest risk militarily, they are the greatest risk economically, and they are the greatest risk in expanding their world influence and seeking to constrain our own."
In June 2019 Cruz teamed with
Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), who was the vice chairman of the U.S. House Foreign
Affairs Committee before the Democrats took the House in 2018, to bring back the "Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft (SHEET)
Act." Cruz stated:
Thirty years ago, the world
watched in horror as tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers mowed down
protestors who had assembled in Tiananmen Square to demand freedom from the
tyranny of Communism. That tyranny lives on today in forms as open as political
violence and as insidious as mass ubiquitous surveillance. Today we remember
the bravery of Chinese dissidents all around the world. We must stand with the
brave men and women who continue to fight for liberty in China, both to honor
the legacy of those who died in the fight and to elevate the cause of those who
continue the battle today. As we remember their courage, the U.S. must remain
steadfast in protecting our own people. The Communist Party is infiltrating
American society to censor free speech and steal sensitive research. Groups
like Confucius Institutes, China Student Scholars Association and the Thousand
Talents program threaten the integrity of our universities and research. We
must counter these efforts, and I am proud to reintroduce the SHEET Act.
Hank Berrien, The Daily Wire, 28-8-2019
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